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Think Big: Powder Coating of Heavy Duty Parts Edited by Nordson Deutschland GmbH Erkrath, Germany
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Giga Coating GmbH was founded to protect trailer and semi-trailer chassis with a length of up to almost 16 meters from corrosion. The largely automated, high-performance powder coating system is also available to external customers with large components as a job coater.
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ruck semitrailers and trailers travel around the world and are subject to many years of hard use. Maximum corrosion protection plays a central role in the long service life of
these vehicles. System Trailers, a company based in Germany, relies with great success on the innovative combination of cathodic dip painting and powder coating. To this end, the medium-sized company has founded its own coating company Giga Coating GmbH and has built a state-of-the-art plant for surface finishing in two construction phases.
The challenge: external job coating as the eye of a needle Maximum corrosion protection plays an important role in the durability of trailers and semi-trailers. To be able to produce them economically despite high automotive requirements, System Trailers relies on a high degree of automation and optimized manufacturing processes. After powder coating by a job coater had become a challenge in production, managing director Ralf Saatkamp resolved by Š Nordson
In the powder coating booths, a total of 22 Encore HD automatic powder guns efficiently ensures highly uniform powder application.
founding Giga Coating GmbH in autumn 2015 as an in-house coating company for large-format components in automotive quality. An approximately 8,600 sqm hall was built on the company
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